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Dorothy Butler
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Dorothy Butler

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Dorothy Butler (OBE) is recognised internationally as an authority on children's books and reading. She has won many major awards for her work in England, Japan, the United States and New Zealand and was declared a Distinguished Alumna of Auckland University. As well as her academic achievements, Dorothy has been a successful teacher, an innovative bookseller and the author of many much-loved children's books, all the while raising eight lively children with her husband Roy. Now in her eighties, she lives in the heritage home in Karekare that her family lovingly restored.

Books by Dorothy Butler

All This & a Bookshop Too

All This and a Bookshop Too is the sequel to the autobiography There Was  a Time, by international children's literacy expert and best-selling author Dorothy Butler

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